This Life Quotes - Page 18

• Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.

  Frederick Buechner

  Pain, May, Today

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• Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Easy, Ifs

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• Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mean, Odds, Embrace

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness”, p.130, New World Library

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• The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly.

  Harold Klemp

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Mean, Artist, Giving

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• Actually, all gifts have been given for reasons of temporal use and need and they will surely pass away at the end of the present dispensation. Love, however, will never be cut off. It works in us and for us, and not simply in this life. For when the burden of physical need has been laid aside in the time to come it will endure, more effectively, more excellently, forever unfailing, clinging to God with more fire and zeal through all the length of incorruption.

  John Cassian

  Cutting, Fire, Forever

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• You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

  Jodee Blanco

  Picks, Who You Are

  Jodee Blanco (2010). “Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story”, p.159, Adams Media

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• I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Children, Blessing, Eternity

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• By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, People, Quests

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• Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist

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• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  David G. McAfee

  Happy Life, Afterlife, Time On Earth

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Mar 22, 2014

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• The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Christ

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• Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Jesus, Eye, Doors

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• This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Pain, Heart, Eden

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• For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

  Edith Wharton

  Strong, Blood, Years

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2054, Delphi Classics

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• Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his eyes. Onward! Onward! There is no time to care for name, or fame, or Mukti, or Bhakti! We shall look to these some other time. Now in this life let us infinitely spread his lofty character, his sublime life, his infinite soul. This is the only work - there is nothing else to do.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Character, Eye, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2007). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, Understanding, Promise

  "The World as Will and Idea".

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• Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

  Wilferd Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Errors

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• The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown by society round two people to unite them together for all eternity. Those two must wed each other, whether they will or not, in life after life. Each acquires half of the merit of the other. And if one seems in this life to have fallen hopelessly behind, it is for the other only to wait and beat time, till he or she catches up again!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Lying, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard the idea of longevity and cease loving this life, instead committing these things to God and, believing that no one ever escapes destiny, to consider, with that in mind, how we may live the best possible life in the time that remains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Believe, Destiny

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• But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice of God to the reason and understanding of man, concerning things deeply affecting his relations to his sovereign, and essential to the formation of his character and of course to his destiny, both for this life and for the life.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Character, Destiny, Men

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications

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• Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Rewards, Doe

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.748, Discovery House

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• Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

  Lionel Blue

  Home, Heaven, Church

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• Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Clean Desk, Needs

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• Angelica. My beloved daughter, the one true good thing I have done in this life.

  Blackbeard

  Daughter, Done, Beloved

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